I am pleased to announce Bill Ribera as the new Senior Director of the West Region.  Bill joined University Relations as a Director of Regional Development in February and has been serving benefactors in Northern California since that time.  Before joining the Development team, Bill had a successful 33 year career in High Tech sales in Silicon Valley. The last 20 of those years were spent in sales leadership positions, including VP of Sales roles at Veritas, Commvault, Panasas and Talena. His diverse skill set and experience includes leading a team of 250 people in the Western Region at Veritas, building out a worldwide sales and engineering organization at Panasas, and developing a sales and marketing strategy for a zero dollar start up, Talena, bringing in their first 25 customers and $3 million in revenue.

Bill is a 1982 graduate of Notre Dame with a degree in Government, and a two time Monogram winner on the Track and Field team. A native Californian, Bill and his wife, have transitioned to South Bend and look forward to their first official Michiana winter.  Bill and Sherri are officially ’empty nesters’ after raising four children; Jaimie, a teacher and coach in Utah, Danielle, a 2011 grad of ND and currently an attorney in the Bay Area, Nick, a junior Computer Science major at ND, and Grace, a freshman at Purdue.  Bill now spends his spare time hiking, running (more like a fast walk) and enjoying food and wine with Sherri.

Please join me in congratulating Bill in his new role

Stu Fortener